The highly anticipated video for the second single from Michael, “Hollywood Tonight”, will premiere on March 10th. MJJWEBSITE got a sneak peek of the sneak peek! This will be public and live on MJ’s Official Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/michaeljackson) tomorrow (March 5th) at noon EST.

We are all super excited to see this video, so spread the L.O.V.E. and let’s get the buzz going!

The Star makes me think about the end of Hold My Hand video, like a link between Hold My Hand video and soon the Hollywood Tonight video.

Thank you for sharing this video. I instantly thought of the HMH video too. It's almost like a continuation of that video. Can't wait to see more...it seems like it was put together really fast, doesn't it? Blessings.

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"Press coverage of my life is like [watching] a fictitious movie...like watching science fiction. It's not true." ~Michael Jackson (2005)

"You should not believe everything you read. You are missing the most important revelations". Craig Harvey 3-15-2012

And also, I'm thinking on one little thing, don't think it's important but I share it with you... You know, during the ceremony and the burial, pictures of Michael during the Bad Era were principally used. And now with the album, they use Dangerous Era, like the cover, live audio in Behind the Mask, videos from Dangerous Tour in Hold my Hand...And maybe it's a continuity in the Hoax, and for exemple we will be close to the end when we'll see Invincible Era pictures etc... And the end with the beginning: This is it. I'm just crazy I think. :D

And also, I'm thinking on one little thing, don't think it's important but I share it with you... You know, during the ceremony and the burial, pictures of Michael during the Bad Era were principally used. And now with the album, they use Dangerous Era, like the cover, live audio in Behind the Mask, videos from Dangerous Tour in Hold my Hand...And maybe it's a continuity in the Hoax, and for exemple we will be close to the end when we'll see Invincible Era pictures etc... And the end with the beginning: This is it. I'm just crazy I think. :D

I like that idea. You might be on to something! It's hard to wait and find out all of things that are in the hoax. It's so complex. I think thaat's why only Michael could have thought to do this.

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So let\'s pray for all the lost children. Let\'s pray for all the lost children wishing them well.This is for all the lost children. This ones for all the lost children.Just think of all the lost children wishing tem well and wishing them home. ~The Lost Children

BiographyThe daughter of Algerian singer, songwriter and jazz musician Safy Boutella, she was born in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers. She started classical dance education at the age of 5 and at the age of 10 in 1992 she left Algeria with her family, and moved to France where she started rhythmic gymnastics, and joined the French national team for the Olympics at the age of 18.

Meanwhile, she had taken up Hip hop and street dance, and was part of a group called the Vagabond Crew, which won the World Championship HipHop battle in 2006. She also participated in a group called “Chiene de Vie and Aphrodites, created by Momo from the Vagabond Crew. Sofia is graduate of Berklee College of Music.

At the same time, she had been rehearsing since the age of 17 with choreographer Blanca Li. She has danced in several film and TV appearances, as well as commercials.

She has also danced with singer Madonna in the Confessions Tour. Her biggest number is to the song Isaac where she does gravity defying moves and escapes from a metal bar cage. It was at this stage in her career when she started dating Fahid Naeem, brother of millionaire hedgefund tycoon James T. Naeem.

Her real breakthrough arrived in 2006, when she was picked for the Jamie King choreography for Nike, as a role model of femininity and Hip hop.[1] This was a major boost in her career, and led to more work alongside stars like Madonna, Jamiroquai and Rihanna.

It’s been a great campaign for the second single, Hollywood Tonight, in the UK thus far; with the song already having received four weeks of A-list support from Radio 2 (the nation’s biggest station) and a plethora of other key stations across the nation.

The song has been Top 10 for two weeks in the official Music Week Urban Club chart too and you may have seen Teddy Riley’s UK interview in Mojo magazine this month too.

Exciting newsflash: the official video for Hollywood Tonight will premiere online this week, and you can catch the UK TV premiere this Friday morning on Daybreak (ITV1). Don’t miss it.

Brilliant! Bravo! Totally different beginning of Michael singing this song. Lots of breathing, hiccups, very sexy. Did Michael record this again live?In the new music video for "Hollywood Tonight," Wayne Isham, who directed the video for Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone," returns to one of the very same locations where he filmed in 1995 with Michael - the Pantages Theatre near the famed corner of Hollywood and Vinehttp://www.facebook.com/michaeljacksonMaybe it's just another little reminder to us that "we are not alone". Another location connection.Starting at :25, but you might want to watch the beginning. :oops: [youtube:377pnqw0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyKJAtDNCw[/youtube:377pnqw0]

And also, I'm thinking on one little thing, don't think it's important but I share it with you... You know, during the ceremony and the burial, pictures of Michael during the Bad Era were principally used. And now with the album, they use Dangerous Era, like the cover, live audio in Behind the Mask, videos from Dangerous Tour in Hold my Hand...And maybe it's a continuity in the Hoax, and for exemple we will be close to the end when we'll see Invincible Era pictures etc... And the end with the beginning: This is it. I'm just crazy I think. :D

you are not crazy!could be... i really hope so!!!

;)

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Some men see things as they are and say: WHY?I dream things that never were and say: WHY NOT?

Brilliant! Bravo! Totally different beginning of Michael singing this song. Lots of breathing, hiccups, very sexy. Did Michael record this again live?In the new music video for "Hollywood Tonight," Wayne Isham, who directed the video for Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone," returns to one of the very same locations where he filmed in 1995 with Michael - the Pantages Theatre near the famed corner of Hollywood and Vinehttp://www.facebook.com/michaeljacksonMaybe it's just another little reminder to us that "we are not alone". Another location connection.Starting at :25, but you might want to watch the beginning. :oops: [youtube:3re497r0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyKJAtDNCw[/youtube:3re497r0]

Hello Mjonmind!!!!

Yes the new video is brilliant,but what do you mean,"starting at:25" ,in You are not alone video,if you don't mind :? ? OMG it's what I'm thinking :oops: ? I think I saw something at Michael but maybe it's just my imagination who is running wild :oops: .It's strange you know because I dint saw that before :shock: :oops: .

And also, I'm thinking on one little thing, don't think it's important but I share it with you... You know, during the ceremony and the burial, pictures of Michael during the Bad Era were principally used. And now with the album, they use Dangerous Era, like the cover, live audio in Behind the Mask, videos from Dangerous Tour in Hold my Hand...And maybe it's a continuity in the Hoax, and for exemple we will be close to the end when we'll see Invincible Era pictures etc... And the end with the beginning: This is it. I'm just crazy I think. :D

you are not crazy!could be... i really hope so!!!

;)

Yes, and watch:

In Hollywood Tonight video, the scenes takes place in the same theater that in You are not Alone video. History Era.Maybe my theory is good. :)

Michael Jackson was so impressed with dancer, Sofia Boutella :D — star of the late icon’s new music video for “Hollywood Tonight” — he was ready to offer her the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to dance alongside him on his This Is It concert series at the O2 Arena in London. Unfortunately, she was still under contract for Madonna’s Confessions Tour at the time and couldn’t get out of it. Seeing how disappointed Boutella was, Jackson turned to a couple of his collaborators and said: “I used to date Madonna. I should call her.”

While Boutella ultimately missed out on This Is It, she pays admirable homage to the King of Pop in his most recent posthumous video, which paints the story of a young, ambitious girl trying to make it in Hollywood without being swallowed by its trappings and illusions. It’s a well-worn tale, but is carried out tastefully by director, Wayne Isham, and sparked by the infectious energy and talent of Boutella. The video also reminds — along with recent MJ tributes on American Idol and Glee — how profound Jackson’s influence continues to be on new generations (many of whom only “discovered” him after his tragic death in 2009).

“Hollywood Tonight” is the second single to be released from Jackson’s posthumous album, MICHAEL(“Behind the Mask” is the alternate single for several countries, including the United States).

The song has a long and winding history. Jackson first put down a sketch of the lyrics in 1999 while staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Soon after, he began working out the music with longtime friend and collaborator, Brad Buxer (who co-wrote the song). The song traveled with them from Los Angeles to New York, Miami to Neverland, during the early Invincible sessions. Jackson and Buxer were pumping out some outstanding material around this time, including songs like “Beautiful Girl,” “The Way You Love Me,” “Speechless,” “The Lost Children,” “Shut Up and Dance” (a great dance track Jackson and Buxer worked on with Michael Prince and Eric Kirkland with echoes of Stevie Wonder and MJ circa Bad which, unfortunately, doesn’t have complete vocals) and “I Was the Loser” (a nice, melodic mid-tempo tune about lost love that is mostly finished), among others. A couple of years earlier Jackson and Buxer had also worked on artistic standouts like “Morphine” and “In the Back.”

Jackson loved parts of “Hollywood”–the opening Gregorian chant (his idea), the “westbound, greyhound” harmonies, the whistling in the outro–but stopped working on it once producer Rodney Jerkins came on board for Invincible.

Over the next ten years, however, he returned to the track numerous times. For the bass line, he was searching for something similar to “Billie Jean,” but distinct. “Do smooth muted bass on ‘Hollywood,’” he indicated in one note. His early demos feature two layered bass lines (Michael Prince added the “Billie Jean”-esque kick and snare in the last mix MJ requested). Jackson and Brad Buxer continued tinkering with it in Las Vegas in 2007. For a while, he liked the idea of ending with the sound of a bus leaving or arriving. Yet he ultimately decided to conclude with the whistling, since the juxtaposition was a bit awkward.

In October 2008, Jackson, now living in Los Angeles, asked recording engineer Michael Prince to put the latest mix of “Hollywood” on CD so he could listen to it and see what might be improved. Sadly, he never got around to working on it again.

The new single of “Hollywood” is truer to this last version than the album cut. Of course, Jackson had intended to keep working on it, which is why his estate and Sony originally brought in two of Jackson’s close collaborators, Theron Feemster (aka Neff-U) and Teddy Riley, to try to finish it. Feemster had the first crack and came up with some solid mixes; yet Sony didn’t feel it was quite right and subsequently gave Teddy Riley a shot. Riley’s production, which retained much of Michael and Brad’s demo (including the intro and outro), elements of Feemster’s mix (including the fantastically funky guitar riff and horns), and added a bit more punch, became the album version.

After it was released, however, many fans voiced concerns about a) the over-processed vocals, and b) the lengthy spoken bridge. Jackson had, in fact, written lyrics for his own bridge, which were much darker than Riley’s. Jackson’s bridge reads:

She doesn’t even have a ticketShe doesn’t even have a way back homeShe’s lost and she’s aloneThere’s no place for her to goShe is young and she is coldJust like her father told her so

While Jackson’s version highlights the tragedy and uncertainty of a dream deferred, Teddy Riley’s bridge opted for a more positive and tidy resolution. “With the bridge we kind of made her succeed,” Riley explained. “[She] completed her mission.”

Riley would have undoubtedly used Jackson’s version had their been vocals for it. Unfortunately, they were never recorded. With the new single, however, Sony decided to cut the spoken part completely and showcase instead some of the heightening drama and tension Jackson intended for this section. They used his beatboxing, his idea of swelling horns and strings, and his operatic vocal (pulled from a tape left running during a recording session in a hotel room). In addition to the bridge, the vocals on the new single are left un-processed and the production is scaled back. The result is a single that has a rawer, funkier, but less finished feel than the album version.

“Hollywood Tonight,” then, has gone through many incarnations: the several different demos Jackson recorded with Brad Buxer and Michael Prince, from 1999 to 2008; the two versions Theron Feemster worked on following Jackson’s death (one of which is reportedly quite impressive); the polished album version completed by Teddy Riley; and, of course, the new single. All are necessarily approximations to what Jackson would have ultimately put out in finished form.

That’s the nature of posthumous releases. They will always be imperfect and they will always generate fierce debate.

But for most music lovers, we will take whatever new Michael Jackson we can get, whether demos, new mixes or remixes. “Hollywood Tonight” could be gathering dust in a vault; instead, it has people dancing in the streets.